Optimistic mood from colors?

Certainly, being a Christian, you can enhance this thru Jesus & the Holy Spirit. If you really totally immerse yourself in this idea, i believe you will see results. & then you are conditioning your brain to this method. I would like to hear your thoughts. Thank you all.

I can understand the concept of colours giving property to neurological events expressed as psychological functioning arsing out of the properties of light on behavioural outworking. Historically, attempts to validate any theory of colour as a psychiatric ambition, have largely failed. Kurt Goldstein the German Psychiatrist sought to clinically demonstrate a somewhat rigid hypothesis using a small number of colours. I believe this small number of colours largely stemmed from the premise that a 'given' colour could be clinically recognised in all visceral and behavioural traits at sight in clinic. And so limitations of time and resource in 1942 for Goldstein meant that he had to limit the colour spectrum to 'types' of colour (red, green, blue, yellow &c) in order to develop his hypothesis into a possible clinical peer review process. That process failed for Goldstein - but his 'colour theory' actually does have some definite events in observation which whilst difficult to repeat on multiple similar cohorts, DID give the modern perception to a more eclectic sense of psychology and a less clearly defined behavioural model.

In short, there is actually no substantive of provable theory of colour.

So why then do we speak in a manner to imbibe a sense of Christ assisting us with a benefit of using colours as a focused event to influence our emotional lives and by implication to influence our behaviour?

I only ask this because there is in fact a whole body of occult literature that speaks into this reality YOU raise. In that realm, colour is a controller of emotions rather akin to a spirit of influence. What is characteristic of this 'occult' corpus of work is that it predicates to chaos theory and out of that the host is invited by sensory influence to yield to 'impulse' perceptions reinforced by familiar demonic activity. What is being sought by the Occult Theosopher is the means to facilitate a shared 'celebration' in which a covenanted process ensues to a stated ambition of eventually coming into the influence of Spiritual Sages who are in truth Satanic and wholly against God - yet present as Ipsissimus - 'The Most Selfless One'.

Alister Crowley and Madame Blavatsky are two historical agents who utilised occult precepts and BOTH were influenced by either a Strict Russian Orthodox (Blavatsky) or Strict Methodist (Alister Crowley). Both were utterly broken internally by those experiences. Blavatsky through her eventual marriage into Russian High Society by being a 'given wife' for which sufferance she inherited her husband's wealth. And an unbearable burden of religious practise that ground down a boy who was to become a man wholly given over to gross excess and exceptional rebellion against God - yet like the 'good boy' he was NOT - he was a good pupil of form and order as presented in the British Institution of Empire.

Of course I can easily see that your words do NOT try to access those two senses of how colours influence emotions and therefore can 'project' an inferred behaviour commensurate with being a Christian. After all why should a believer not allow Christ to 'preserve us' else to guide us' else to teach us' as the Rainbow teaches that God will no more judge the earth again by water. It is very easy and unfortunately far too simple a matter to find oneself being influenced in ways that are genuinely difficult to intersect due to the very real and undoubted fact that colour perceptions are an improper use that not only exceed any biblical meaning - but rises into the air and is taken up by the Prince of the Power of the Air - and as to the air that belongs to God - and so the 'power' that is given a principality and a tile are demonic spirits of a very unnatural order of ambitious effect.

after reading the 1st sentence, i said, "alright", here we go with another, "paralysis by analysis" posting. there is "TMI" & you overloaded the "TMI"! also, with your overload, you missed the point. i am not impressed 1 bit by your answer, in fact it's super ridiculous. i also don't think this came from your skull either. i'll lay it out for you simple: cogitating on colors in serene settings in physical view or imagination, can be very satisfying & may produce a healing in situations like depression, rejection, loneliness, etc. this idea entered my brain a long time ago. i thought on it, expounded on it & produced results. i don't care if every psychologist, doctor & psychiatrist past, present & future disagrees, it works for me.

Perhaps it may be more reasonable to be reasonable in your expressions.

No one is asking others to be 'impressed'.

There can be only one reasonable reason to comment into an OP that is essentially occult in character albeit it is presented in a pseudo psychological sense. I was simply making that point. I don't think that YOU missed that point. Whereas you say that I missed yours. I missed nothing. How could I? You said almost nothing. It was and is a mindless babble.

Your last part of your comment is mindless. It is a 'boast' to being withour any proper function of the mind. and to press at best into an experience. If you are a Christian you are a stumbling block. You also clearly have no understanding of the occult. I do. So my being polite ought not to be confused with an inclination to yield to a senseless spirit. Repent.

A while back, I have discerned moods can be affected by colors. If you are sad, distressed, depressed or bitter, think in healing colors like green. Soft colors, like pink, fuchsia, magenta, orange & others. Certainly, being a Christian, you can enhance this thru Jesus & the Holy Spirit. If you really totally immerse yourself in this idea, i believe you will see results. & then you are conditioning your brain to this method. I would like to hear your thoughts. Thank you all.

Hi Karlon!

I can definitely tell a difference when I'm around different kinds of colors.

My parents love earth tones, autumn, and Southwestern-type colors -- so varying shades of brown, mustard yellow, and burnt orange. I like to joke that there's the book called 50 Shades of Grey (no, I've never read it or seen the movie -- I have absolutely interest in it,) but that my parents' home decorating theme is always 50 Shades of Beige.

I learned early on that in contrast, I like bright primary colors -- ocean blue, cherry red, kelly green, royal purple -- and my parents were kind enough to let me decorate my room to my own needs. I'm a natural introvert, and I can feel myself withdrawing even more when I'm around muted, warm-toned colors for extended periods of time.

I feel very blessed that my parents have always been understanding that I actually need some bright color in my life to help me feel better. Several years ago they gave me an artificial palm tree (because it looks tropical,) and I decorated it with multiple strings of brightly colored, blinking Christmas lights. It's a staple for me, and I sometimes sit in the dark with my tree lit up while I pray.

People have also given me ornaments to put on my tree, so it's a year-round keepsake of God's love and provision for my quirky need for color.

I believe color is one of God's blessings and one of the things I look forward to in heaven is discovering colors there that I'm sure our earthly life here is too limited to see.

Great thread and thank you for posting this!